Friendship and Freedom in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

Summary: Essay examines the themes of friendship and freedom in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. The prerequisite of a classic novel is that it can stand for a long time. The core meaning conveyed in the adventures of Huckleberry Finn still applies to today's affairs.

Born in a liberate and democratic atmosphere, I as well as people around me take freedom for granted. In our eyes, freedom is innate, coming hand in hand with the very first cry. The seeming God's truth obviates the endeavor to obtain it, thus incarnating the equality of all inscribed in the Holy Scripture, which even in some part of the world today is still Arabian nights, let alone in turbulent climate then. The period during which the author Mark Twain lived could be called tumult itself when the legal rights for Afro-Americans had not yet been granted and the antagonism to slavery was in the prime. The uprising of John Brown brought the anti-slavery campaign to its zenith, promulgating the idea to numerous blacks who were enlightened only at this time. Their resistance to the planters, namely the interior force, together with exterior one from peace-loving people...